AN MSP sparked fury yesterday when he revealed he'd been sitting around at work drinking coffee for an hour - and boasted: "That's how to govern a country."

AN MSP sparked fury yesterday when he revealed he'd been sitting around at work drinking coffee for an hour - and boasted: "That's how to govern a country."

Newly elected SNP MSP Marco Biagi bragged about his light workload on Twitter.

He wrote: "Education committee this morning took 14mins. Then we spent an hour chatting over coffee. That's how to govern a country."

Biagi, 28, an Oxford-educated former policy adviser won the Edinburgh Central seat by 237 votes.

Labour MP Ian Murray said: "Parents across Scotland will be furious about this blunder. Only recently, the SNP-Lib Dem council in Marco Biagi's constituency agreed to class sizes of 40 in some primaries.

"You'd have thought he'd be more interested in sorting out the crisis in Scottish schools than downing another latte."

The 14-minute meeting came as schools face strike action by teachers.

An SNP spokeswoman said the informal chat over coffee was a "good way to start the new education committee".

She added: "Ian Murray has got the wrong end of the stick. Either the election result has damaged Labour's sense of humour or Twitter isn't the best tool for sarcasm."